A recent survey of 1,000 employees at large U.S. enterprise organizations finds that employee inattentiveness, laziness and possible malicious intent add up to constitute a real cyber security concerns. The research was commissioned by security vendor Ping Identity.

Guidance Software is fortifying its endpoint detection and response with a new release of EnCase Endpoint Security, as well as new partnerships and deep integration with Splunk and Lastline. The goal is to cut time and complexity for threat detection and prevention.

VMware has a powerful vision for a new level of ‘app portability,’ where IT can lift-and-shift an entire application or workload up from one infrastructure and run it on another – whether physical, virtual, on-prem, cloud or even a hybrid mix. VMware just released its latest building blocks for delivering on this vision. IDN speaks with VMware execs.

Neuron ESB is breathing new life and capabilities into the trusty enterprise service bus for any-to-any integrations – even to the cloud. Neuron ESB is combining its library of adapters with a new Adapter Metadata Generation Wizard to easily share, add, update or delete data and records across popular on-prem and cloud apps. IDN speaks with Neuron ESB’s John Petersen.

The current state of the IoT is a kind of Dickensian dichotomy. It’s not quite "best of times, worst of times," but it’s true there is both excitement and concern. IDN looks at the study by Progress Software and Harbor Research that surveyed 700 developers.

Advances across the mobile ecosystem are making it faster, easier and more lucrative for app developers. A just-released survey by Evans Data Corp. looks at developer activity. The survey also found technologies for Internet of Things ‘won the year.’ IDN speaks with Evan Data’s director of research Michael Rasalan.

Despite innovative mobile payments from giants Apple and Google, a recent survey finds practically everyone is worried about smartphone-based payment security. Even credit cards weren’t the no-brainer choice, as more than 60% of U.S. respondents said cash is their Number One choice. IDN looks at the Tripwire survey.

Next month, Tibco continues to build on its recently-launched new-gen BPM platform that is infused with real-time events and data. To deliver a more adaptive, informed and responsive approach, ActiveMatrix BPM uses events, integration and what the company calls “fast data” to push BPM beyond workflow automation to provide deeper situational awareness and responsiveness. IDN talks with Tibco’s Rachel Brennan.

Azul Systems is shipping a version of its Zulu 100% open source, binary distribution of the OpenJDK 8 platform that works with Docker container technology. Azul’s Zulu 8 on Docker can improve performance and throughput of Java 6, 7 or 8 applications because it enables them to be configured for easy deployment across the most common Linux server platforms. IDN speaks with Azul CEO Scott Sellers.